Comment by loeber
2 years ago
European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.
2 years ago
European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.
Germany != Europe.
The French use « », Italians use ‘regular’ “quotes”, etc.
Strangely enough, this is the first time I see your style of quote, in two decades on the Internet.
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/formex/physical-...
Yeah I’m surprised at how rare this is to see. I guess that means all Germans don’t follow this convention?
I believe it should be double, „like this“, not single quotes.
Other countries use it too. I'm pretty sure that Spain does.
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> European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high
Wouldn't say it's "common", because IIRC that's only the case in Germany and Austria.
however in German you would use two tick quotation marks like „this".
Also in Polish, actually.
And some others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table
Interestingly, the author does not follow this convention on his personal site (first link in profile) … instead option for the ‘single quote’ form instead.